DELIVERER "Smother"
Genre: Instrumental Neofolk / "Barbarian Folk"
Country: USA
Track List:
- No Home
- Until The Plains
- Deliverer Awake
- Spurn From Within
- Fall of Civilization
- Reunion
Bandcamp
"... I am Black and mixed race. It’s hard to think of fascism as a benign
thing for me, whether or not the attitudes are sincere or just aesthetic
based. For those reasons I’ve often been removed from the metal scenes
except on the internet, which is where people are the worst about that
sort of thing. I’ve probably been to less than 10 black metal shows in
20 years o listening to the music for that reason, so I’ve encountered
only minimal amounts of it in person.
... I have always felt a connection to old folk traditions,
although I never had a ton of personal connection through them in my
upbringing – so many of them I have admired from a distance. But it is
also so easy for these things to get wrapped up in nationalism that has
also kept me a bit removed from them. There are many Black American folk
magic and pagan traditions that I don’t have as much connection to.
I’m especially a fan of Scandinavian and similarly influenced projects like most of what
Einar Selvik is connected to,
Ulver’s Kveldssanger and the like. But I’ve also looked to bands like
Deveykus and
Zeal and Ardor
who have tried to incorporate Hasidic music and Black spirituals
respectively into a metal sound, insisting on making space for
themselves and their sounds in the larger umbrella of the scene"
Read the full interview with Deliverer
here.